generally high quality bud will cost you $20 a gram.

Now when they start charging $25 for .5 grams...GET OUT!!

In my view you did overpay, but thats because we are living in Prohibition which raises the prices artificially. In Holland where it is tolerated, the prices are about 60% less with better quality! So you can't tell me that growers need to charge this much!

No...the dealers do. Growers will usually sell an ounce of high quality for maybe like $250 wholesale and than the dealers will break it up into dimes or eighths to make more of a profit. Its the dealers that really raise the prices.

As you can tell, prohibition is a motherfucker!